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A. Douhledaiji is a near ally of A. Ccecilia, Fab. {Hypatia, Dru.), a well- 

 known West- African species, but, as far as the $ sex is concerned, may readily 

 be recognised by its more rufons colour (extending to the terminal half of the 

 abdomen), narrower blackish borders, smaller spots, and much less pronounced 

 basal blackish ; while on the under side the spots in the hind-marginal black 

 border are larger. It has no closely-related known South- African form, the 

 least distant, A. Stenohea, Wallengr., having the sexes almost alike, and 

 remarkably suffused with black over all the basal region of the fore-wings. The 

 5 Douhledayi bears a superficial resemblance to the $ A. Petrcea, Boisd., as 

 well as to the reddish-brown form of A. Lycia, Fab. From the former it is at 

 once distinguished by its much smaller and more separate spots, and much 

 narrower and less conspicuous subapical white bar of the fore-wings, and from 

 the latter by its possession of a black border to the hind-wings. The variety 

 A. {Neluska, Oberth.) decidedly approaches in character the closely-allied A. 

 Galdarena, Hewits., in which both sexes possess a very broad black tip to the 

 fore-wing. 



From January to April 1867 I found this butterfly abundant near D'Urban, 

 Port Natal, and the late Mr. M'Ken and Colonel Bowker have since sent many 

 specimens from that neighbourhood to the South-African Museum. It is a 

 very slow flyer, chiefly frequenting wooded spots. I took the sexes paired on 

 March 24th, and Colonel Bowker has since 1877 sent me several pairs captured 

 in cop)uld. 



Localities of Acrcea Douhledayi. 



I. South Africa. 

 E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban. Avoca and Pinetown [W. Movant). 

 H. Delagoa Bay. — Lorengo Marques (/. /. Monteiro). 



K. Transvaal. — Marico River and Upper Limpopo Kiver. — Var. Axina, 

 Westw. {F. C. Belous). 



II. Other African Regions. 



A. South Tropical. 



ai. Interior. — " Tati and Gwailo River. — Var. Axina, Westw. [F. 

 Oates)." — AVestvvood. 



b. Eastern Coast, — Zambesi (Rev. H. Roivley). Zanzibar. " Zanzi- 



bar ; — var. Neluska, Oberth. {A. Raffray)." — Oberthiir. 



B. North Tropical. 



h. Eastern Coast. — "Abyssinia {Lefehvre)." — Guerin-Meneville, and 

 {^^ Ferret et Galinier") Reiche. 



42. (9.) Acrsea Caldarena, Hewitson. 



$ Acroia Caldarena, Hewits., Ent. M. Mag., xiv. p. 52 (1877). 

 (J Acroea AmphimaUa, Westw,, App. Oates' Matabele Land, p. 347, n. 37, 

 pL E, £f. I, 2 (1881). 



JExp. al., I in. 9 lin. — 2 in. 6 lin. 



$ Pale creamy-ochreous, mtfi more or less of a ijinh tinge (especially 

 in hind-wing), ivith small hlach spots ; apex of fore-iving very loidely 

 Mack. Fore-wing : apical black extending from costa to end of second 

 median nervule ; a little before inner edge of apical black, but not 

 quite parallel with it, an oblique row of three or four spots ; an elongate 

 spot at extremity of cell ; another in cell towards extremity ; a spot 

 below median nervure, not far from base ; two spots almost in a line 



